The Fountain

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas, et al.

Product Description

Three parallel stories - about love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of existence - as told through the odyssey taken on by one man in his thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves. His epic journey begins in 16th-century Spain, where, as conquistador Tomas Creo, he commences his search for the 'Tree of Life', the legendary entity believed to grant eternal life to those who drink of its sap. As modern-day scientist Tommy Creo, he desperately struggles to find a cure for the cancer that is killing his beloved wife Isabel. Traveling through deep space as a 26th-century astronaut, Tom begins to grasp the mysteries of life that have consumed him for more than a century.

• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: English
• UPC: 085391117377
• Release Date: January 2007
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Warner
• Director: Darren Aronofsky
• Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ellen Burstyn, Ethan Suplee, Donna Murphy, Alexander Bisping, Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis
• Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Multiple Formats; AC-3; Blu-ray; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; NTSC; Subtitled; Widescreen
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Permanence vs. impermanence.

“Therefore, the Lord God banished Adam and Eve and placed a flaming sword to protect the Tree of Life.” – Genesis 3:24 Three intertwined stories that parallel in different eras (1500 AD, 2000 AD, and 2500 AD). Three parallel journeys from darkness into light. We see a person (Hugh Jackman) struggling to hold on to life at any cost. Will he succeed, fail, or learn something about just letting go in the process? Great background film score which has just as much presence as the actors. Brilliant images of Petri dishes and Rachel Weisz. We get a close-up of the Tree of Life and a new twist on its meaning.